How much money would it really cost to save a ranch like the one on Yellowstone? If Beth (Kelly Reilly) is to be believed, the Dutton clan owes the government something like hundreds of millions of dollars in inheritance taxes following her father’s death, something that doesn’t seem right but might as well be, because who really understands that? the tax code at all? Anyway, things are heating up in Yellowstone and the Duttons are having a fire sale.

That’s really the crux of this week’s episode, “Give The World Away.” The Duttons sell virtually everything that isn’t nailed down on the ranch, from $3 million horses bought from buffoons from Brazil to wagons and tractors. Ranching apparently relies on a precarious mountain of credit and financial bets, and one small twist, one wrong step – brucellosis in a field or the death of the governor/ranch owner, say – can plunge the whole thing into disaster.

While Rip (Cole Hauser) checks out the pre-sale at the ranch, Beth heads to Texas to supervise Travis (Taylor Sheridan), who is actually the star of this entire episode. He gets a lot of exciting dialogue, eye-catching riding scenes and comes across as a playboy that any woman would love to be with. His girlfriend is played in the episode by supermodel/super equestrian Bella Hadid, for crying out loud, and she doesn’t even seem to mind that he’s also wooing about ten other horse-loving beauties.

Beth hates Travis almost immediately, but is impressed by his bullshit skills and hires him to come to Montana to sell. There’s a bit of strip poker and a lot of banter, but he agrees to do it for free, something you’d think he should have done from the start given how much he loved John and Rip respected. But he just wanted to see Beth sweat.

Either way, when Travis comes to the ranch, he does his job and the family makes about $30 million from the sale, enough to last another year, according to Beth. They won’t make any money this year – they don’t have to raise cows or really grow or do anything else on the ranch – but as we learn at the end of the episode, they also have a plan for how to get out of this whole mess come out.

The plan involves either giving away the ranch as a whole or selling it for $1, and it really looks like Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham), Mo (Mo Brings Plenty) and the rest of the indigenous people are involved Crew from Broken Rock will be involved in reservation. In every episode they keep talking about how a pipeline will ruin their land, and it would only be right if the Duttons sold the land back to them for next to nothing in exchange for labor and labor rights to live there. What goes around comes around and so on.

And speaking of desserts, it’s becoming increasingly doubtful whether Jamie will get what’s expected of him from Wes Bentley. However, at the beginning of the episode it looks like the walls are closing in, as the police raid the offices of Market Equities in an attempt to frame John Dutton’s murder on Sarah Atwood (Dawn Oliveri) and other strangely specific information When Jamie finds out about her sexual escapades, he makes the smart move of asking his ex Christina (Katherine Cunningham) for help, ostensibly because she doesn’t want her son’s legacy to be tarnished.

As a former DNC agent, Christina seems to know how to get out of a sticky political situation. She tells Jamie to distance himself from Sarah, launch a very public investigation into his father’s murder, and sing his father’s praises to heaven, saying his own words. Murder meant the citizens of Montana their right to their elected officials to choose, were not allowed to exercise. It looks like it could work if Jamie can pull it off, but let’s hope Beth has Christina’s house wired for sound or something, because there’s no way this series is going to end satisfactorily if he doesn’t get what’s on him comes.

And it will end soon. Next week is the series finale, and it looks like it’s going to end with John’s invitation-only funeral, the secret sale of the ranch, and (hopefully) very little bloodshed.

It might be the end of “Yellowstone,” but it might be the start of something entirely new at the Yellowstone Ranch, and that’s a very good thing.

“Yellowstone airs Sundays at 8pm ET/PT on Paramount Network

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